P2P not responsible for Internet clogs; she can’t take anymore http Cap’n!
If Scotty had anything to say about it, he would be telling us all that the "Internet canna (cannot) take anymore (traffic)" meaning that it’s starting to get a bit clogged with traffic. He’d be right. It seems all that http traffic is starting to catch up with this. We need our streaming video and its becoming (almost) more than the current infrastructure can handle.
Comcast would have us believe that these clogs are the cause of all the evil file sharers out there but that’s simply not the case. Some new reports have been revealed which show 10% of Internet users are responsible for 80% of the traffic. I’m probably one of them and I won’t feel sorry for you, because, that’s just making full use of it.
You do realize it does more than email and Google, right?
According to GigaOM,
"On fixed and mobile broadband networks where consumer services are provided (i.e., NOT interprovider or typical dedicated Internet access for commercial enterprises):
- 10 percent of subscribers consume 80 percent of bandwidth.
- 0.5 percent of subscribers consume about 40 percent of total bandwidth
- 80 percent of subscribers use less than 10 percent of bandwidth"
P2P traffic accounts for about 20% of usage but the ISPs (Internet Service Providers) would try to make this seem like a bigger deal than it is.
Further data indicates,
- "During peak-load times, 70 percent of subscribers use http while 20 percent are using P2P
- Http still makes up the majority of the total traffic, of which 45 percent is traditional web content that includes text and images. Streaming video and audio content from services like YouTube accounts for nearly 50 percent of the http traffic."
I doubt that Comcast or other ISPs will change their tune any time soon. I find it hard to believe that 80% of subscribers are doing almost nothing with their broadband connection. They may as well have dial-up.
I thought that everyone used services like Hulu, Adobe Media Player, YouTube and others for at least several hours a day. I guess it’s a good thing that’s not the case or we really would be hurting for bandwidth.
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